Word: goober
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...somehow even missed its name. Given Trie's eagerness to please, though, I suspect he chose a name designed to make some of those Arkansas legislators from places like Mount Ida and Ash Flat feel as comfortable as they could in an Oriental setting--maybe something like the Jade Goober...
There has been so much written about Clinton's life in Little Rock that it's not difficult to imagine what his visits to the Jade Goober must have been like. In my mind, the trip from his office to the Goober would have been on foot, a poll by Dick Morris having shown that most Arkansans prefer that the Governor walk rather than ride to lunch and, if possible, not via a route that would take him by McDonald's for hors d'oeuvres...
...Jade Goober, Web Hubbell has just finished his lunch with an all-vegetable dish listed on the menu as Bubba's Delight. Trie, following standing instructions, has given him the check plus three carbon copies suitable for submission. At the next table, a waitress impatiently taps a pencil on her pad as James McDougal changes his mind again and again...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-BEAR. Mike Johnson Band on Thursday, Nov. 4. Letters to Cleo on Friday, Nov. 5. Goober and the Peas on Saturday...